CVE-2022-49190

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again Since commit ebff7d8f270d ("mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memory"), we could get a resource allocated during boot via alloc_resource(). And it's required to release the resource using free_resource(). Howerver, many people use kfree directly which will result in kernel BUG. In order to fix this without fixing every call site, just leak a couple of bytes in such corner case.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7faa04a44a0c37ac3d222fa8e0bdcbfcee9c0c8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab86020070999e758ce2e60c4348f20bf7ddba56

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e88c2618d228d7a4e7e515cf30dc0d0d813f27

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cbcc92917c5de80f15c24d033566539ad696892

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-02-26

Updated: 2025-02-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium